Please answer the following questions in Googledocs.
Your answers are due on Wednesday, 1/25/17.
1. What tone does Alleyne take when reprimanding Farrington?
2. Why does Joyce describe Alleyne as small and egg-shaped in appearance?
3. Where does Farrington imply that he’s been going all afternoon?
4. What is suggested by the fact that Farrington holds out for an extra shilling (a small amount) at the pawnbroker’s?
5. What is the symbolism implied in Farrington’s pawning of his watch?
6. The bartender is referred to as a “curate.” What’s the irony in this?
7. What is the religious symbolism evident in the closing lines of the story?
8. Discuss the following theme that is present in the story “Counterparts" - The story illustrates that the bleeding between different areas of life inevitably exists. When maddening routine and repetition form the backbone of experience, passivity may result, but so too might volatile frustration.
9. How does this story reinforce the idea that Dublin is responsible for a certain kind of monotony that dehumanizes the residents of the city?
10. What themes are echoed in this story from "Araby?"
